Generally speaking, if third-party insurers won't touch it, it's not safe to ship there. Check this: http://delta.u-pic.com/BuyOnline.aspx
I ship worldwide with exclusions. Italy has not posed any problems with me. These are my exclusions and I put some thought into them.
Shipping to: Worldwide
Excludes: Guatemala, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vatican City State, Papua New Guinea, Guadeloupe, Sierra Leone, Wallis and Futuna, Marshall Islands, Nauru, French Guiana, Anguilla, Gambia, El Salvador, Guam, Micronesia, Dominican Republic, Mayotte, Cameroon, Guyana, Taiwan, Azerbaijan Republic, Macau, Suriname, Oman, Georgia, Tonga, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, Middle East, New Caledonia, San Marino, Guinea-Bissau, Bhutan, Armenia, Senegal, Eritrea, Togo, Uzbekistan, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Qatar, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Burundi, Iraq, Belarus, Slovakia, Equatorial Guinea, Slovenia, Thailand, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Aruba, Uruguay, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Western Sahara, Congo, Republic of the, American Samoa, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Macedonia, Kuwait, Israel, Liechtenstein, Bermuda, Benin, Algeria, Montserrat, Zambia, Russian Federation, Somalia, Antigua and Barbuda, Vanuatu, Swaziland, Ecuador, Albania, Ethiopia, Guernsey, Monaco, Pakistan, Laos, Niger, Tanzania, Ukraine, Panama, Burkina Faso, Kyrgyzstan, Jersey, Venezuela, Ghana, Reunion, Djibouti, Chile, Puerto Rico, China, Cape Verde Islands, Martinique, Mali, Moldova, Botswana, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Cambodia, Madagascar, Indonesia, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Paraguay, Cayman Islands, Lebanon, Saint Helena, Cyprus, Rwanda, Liberia, Seychelles, Bolivia, Maldives, Bangladesh, Gibraltar, Sri Lanka, Libya, Nigeria, Lesotho, Central African Republic, Gabon Republic, Zimbabwe, Saint Lucia, Mauritius, Guinea, Jordan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cote d Ivoire (Ivory Coast), British Virgin Islands, Norway, Turks and Caicos Islands, Kiribati, Chad, Turkmenistan, Andorra, Greece, Romania, Grenada, Costa Rica, Haiti, India, Mexico, Greenland, Yemen, Afghanistan, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Africa, Montenegro, Mongolia, Netherlands Antilles, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Nepal, Bahrain, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Dominica, Palau, Malawi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nicaragua, Angola, Tunisia, Uganda, Turkey, Western Samoa, Barbados, Tuvalu, Jamaica, Egypt, Mozambique, Namibia, Niue, Peru, Central America and Caribbean, Honduras, Brunei Darussalam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), South Africa
I do use only tracked packet right now so my ship-to countries are limited to those served by Canada Post Tracked Packet and they are as follows:
SHIP-TO LOCATIONS BY TRACKED PACKET ONLY FOR ALL ITEMS WORTH LESS THAN $100 CAD AND WEIGHING LESS THAN 2 KG
Austria
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Croatia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Hungary
Italy
Ireland
Iceland
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Malta
Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
Portugal
Singapore
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
USA
Turkey is tricky because they have banned paypal payments, meaning your buyer may have trouble submitting payment. I should also note there is a known lag between the countries served by Tracked Packet and the counties included in Paypal Shipping's database. Many of those countries are missing. I conducted my own test recently to see which those still were and that information can be found here: https://community.ebay.ca/t5/Seller-Central/CANADA-POST-TRACKED-PACKET-SERVICE-EXPANDED-TO-31-COUNTR...
You will get many different responses to your question because every seller here has different tolerance for risk based on their category, items, and general disposition. Plus experience there.
